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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time

Do Ho Suh, Self-Portrait, 2014.

The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL, United Kingdom

“I see life as a passageway, with no fixed beginning or destination,” the Korean artist Do Ho Suh said in 2017. “We tend to focus on the destination all the time and forget about the in-between spaces.” Suh recreates those transitory spaces, places he once called home—or spaces within the home—cladding fine steel frames with transparent polyester to create ghost houses in a single bright color. He also creates thread drawings, architectural rubbings, and watercolors that explore similar themes. This exhibition sees Suh exploring, in a number of mediums, his past, present, and future. —Elena Clavarino